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Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1860-08-16

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f HI Iff IflMlI '' MPBIMIfM ; Vol, VI. MouiffT trmrtisroDT,. ..OZtXO," TIIUnSDAT, AUQUST xo, lcqa Wo. 1X ''''THE rE"W. 'Tii not the copious rains alone Which Wets the parched soil; The gentle dews I hit nightly tail, Itewatd the Bower's t)il. Vrseen, unheard, the dows descend, Like slumber on the mind; Ami on the thirsty hills and fields A blessing leave behind. In the cool stillness of the night The dreoping plants revive The grass and every tender herb With their sweet inllueuce thrive. See, lifted on each pointed blade, How bright the dew drops shine! And learn in trusting, humble faith To trace the Hand Divine. That, though no clouds their fullness drop, In answer to our prayer; Still we may own, from day to day, Our God for us doth care. AN HONEST ARAB. We bad been on a fishing tuur in the Highlands, and, en route to town, were idling a day or two in "the grey metropolis of the portb." "Scotchman, Xpress, Merkerry, Fewzees, penny a bunder this day's Scotchman, sir?" shouted a shrill-piped, ragged little imp, at the fag end of a cold, wet, bitter day in October, as we stood blowing a cloud at the door of the New Royal in Princess Street, "'o; we don't want any." "Fewzees, penny a bander, sir; this day's paper, sir, half price only a bawbee;" persisted the young countryman of Adam Smith, as the market showed symptoms of decline, and threatened to close decidedly flit. Ojt along. Bird's Eye, we don't want any," growled Philips. "They're gude fevrzjes, sir, penny a bunder," Don't smoke;" Philips kquitur, wl.iff, whiff, whiff. "They're gude fuwz.es, sir, hunderand twenty for a penny, sir," coming round on my flank. "No, we" don't want 'em, my boy." The keen blue face, red bare feet, ingrained with dirt, and bun le of scan'y rag, looked pileously up at me, moved off " a little, but still hovered around u. Now, when I put down my first subscription to the One Tun Raggad School in Westmin ister, I took a mental pledge from myself to encourage vagrant children iu the streets no more. Somehow, in this instance, that pledge would nt stand by me, but gave way. "Give me a penny'ortb, young un." 'Yes, sir, they dinna smell." "If the lueifer's don't, the son of Lucifer does," threw in Philips. "Ah, I haven't got a copper, little 'un, nothing less than a shilling; so, never mind, my boy, I'll buy from you to morrow.""Buy them the nicbt, if you please. I'm very hung-grey, sir." "He'll give you his check for the balance, Geff." His little, cold face, which had lighted up, now fell, for, from his bundle of pa pers, I saw bis sales bad ben few that day. "I'll gang for tbe change, sir." "Well, little 'un, I'll try you there is a shilliog now be a good b y, and bring me the change to-morrow morning to the hotel ask for Mr. Turner. "Give my friend your word of honor, as a gentleman, for the bob." As sure'a death, sir, I'll bring tbe change in the morn," was tbe promise of young Lucifer, before he vanished with the shilling. "Well, Turner," as we slrolled along Princes street, "you don't expect to see your brimstone friend, agaiu, do you?" "I do." 'Your friend will dishonor his I. 0. U., as cure as" -"Well, I won't grieve about the money; but I think I can trust yon boy." Can? Why youjiave trusted him; and your deliberation savors remarkably of the . historical stable keeper, who began to think about shutting the door when but the illustration don't seem to strike jm as a novelty." "Well, we'll see." "Yes, wonders, but not young Brimstone and your money." Next morning, we were on the Roslin stBge, to "do" the wonderful little chapel there. It is a perfect little gem. and its traatry, and its witchery, and its flowers, and fruits and stony stories charm and delight the civilized eye and soul as fresh to-day as (hey did the rude barbarians four centuries ago. I never visit Edinburgh, but I go and see that little chapel It Roslin, and always endeavor to have a fresh compan-, pa with me, to watch the new delight and joy he receives, and of which I am a partaker, too. put to return to the Roslin stage. We were stopped near the Univer-sary by a crowd congregated round some ' wretch brought to grief by the race-horse pace of a butcher's cart. A working man raised something in his arms, and, followed by the 'crowd, bore it off. "It was ovtr thereabouts, Philip." I Slid, during the block-up, "that Lord Darnley, of exalted memory, was blown up in the Kirk o' the Fields, to which bky. rocketing Mary of Scotland and the Lies, Regina, his beauteous, loving, and ill-Btarred spouse, was said to bej a privy and consenting party." "Nothing peculiarly interesting or uncommon in that episode of connubial bliss, I should think, friend of mine. Blrwn up, my boyl One of dearebt woman's dearest privileges that's what you may look forward to, when you pledge your plighted troth." "Blown up by gunpowder, Charley, Guy Faux fashion, though. Thai's Darnley's garden wall close by lluit public house, and that's the doorway of it built up." "Quite right, too. No bnckways to the tap, says I. And Darnley be darned and blowed, too; but why don't Jehu handle liis ribbons, and si it up liisihorough-bieds? Now, then, ote o'clock, the stage awaits." "Did ye sae ane o'clock, tir?" returned Jarvie, rustling his ribbons, after we had gone a little way. "I'm thinkin' ye're gey wee acquaint wi' that hour, 'the wee short hour ayont the twul,' as Kobbie snys. Wad ye hae me drive or, regardless o' life or lim', end may -be rundir anither brain li'eless or an or j ct for life? Na, na; ane o'clock ktns better." "What's put your pipe out, Charley, you neither smoke nor speak. Uas 'ane o'clock' put it on the stopper?" I houp not, Mr meant ne tflVnceJ, poor i-g Bj,onT( (for llis ca9e wa9 ir,"said Concliee, who beard me. "LooR hopeless; even though he had been taken ye, there's Craigmillar Castle, win re puir, Queen Mary eptnt nTftw, o' her happy days; ard there's Blackford Hill, where tMr Walier says M irmiuii stood and saw "Sueh dusky grandeur clothe the hijjht, Where tho huge C'nsilo hulls its state, And alt the stoop tluue down, AVIiojo ridgy baefc hoave? to tho sky, Piled den) mid tn-iwy, ohiso nnd bi;jli, Mine own roiu:intie tewn!" Arid that's Liberton, viler.; Mr. Butler, in the Heart if Mid Lothian, was Dominie, And ynnder's I'urdie House, there's rare fossil fish and other crealurs gut at its lime quarries, they tell me. Ah! I've mony a lime seen puir Hugh Miller, wha's dead und gone, out here ladened wi' bits o stnnes tbut In- ca'd line specimens, and gae'd lang nebbed foreign names to. Bur-die House, ye km, is Scotch for Bordeaux House, a place whtre some of Mary's foreign courtiers lived; and that village you see pw'r by my whip was built for her French flunkeys, and ca'd Little France to this very day." On our return to the inn, I inquired: . "Waiter, did a little boy call for me today?""Boy, sii? call, air? No, sir." "Of course, Geff, he didu't. Did you really expect to see your young Arab again?" "Indeed, I did, Charley; I wish he had proved honest." "Then, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning, how thou art fallm!" Later in the evening, a small boy was introduced, who wished to speak with me He was a diudecimo edition of the email octavo of the previous day, got up with less outlay of capital a shoeless, shirtless, shruuk, ragged, wretched, keen-witted Arab of the streets and closes of the city. He was so very small, and cold and childlike though with the same shivering feet and frame, thin, blue-cold face, down which tears had worn their weary chan-dels that I saw at once the child was not my friend of the previous night. "Enter Antonio to redeem his bond!' Philips, loquitur. He stood for a few moments diving and rummaging into the recesses of his rags; at last little Tom Thumb said: - .'Are you the gentleman that boucht fewz es frae Sandy yesterday?" 'Yes, my little man.' Wee!, here's seven-pence (counting out d'vers copper coins;) Sandy canna come; he's no wee); a cart ran ow'r him the day, and broken his legs, and lost his bannet and his fewzees, and your four-pence- , and his knife, nnd he's no weel. no weel, ava, and the doo tor says he'sNrwdee in--and that's a he can gie you, noo." And the poor child, com mencing with sobs, ended in a sore fit of crying. I gave him food, fur though his cup o' sorrow was full enough, his stomach was empty, as he looked wistfully at the display on the tea-table. 'Are you Sandy's brother?" 'Ay, sir;' and the floodgates of his heart again opened ' Where do you live? Are your father and mother alive?" 'We bide in Blackfriars' Wynd in the Coogate. My mither is dead, and father's awa: and we bide whiles wi' pur gude mither," sobbing bitterly, "Where did this accident happen?' "Near the college sir." Calling a cab, we were speedily set d,on at uiackmara' Wynd. J bad never peno trated the wretchedness of those 'ancient closes by day, and here I entered one by night, and almost alone. Preceded by my little guide, I entered a dark, wide, wind ing stair, until, climbing many flights of stairs in fatal darkness, he opened a door, whence a light maintained a feeble unequal btruggle with a thick, close-sraelling.heavy gloom. My courage nearly gave way, as the spectacle of that room burst upon me. In an apartment, certainly spacious in extent, but scarcely made visible by one gut-terinjj candle etuck in a bottle, were an overcrowded mass of human beings sleep-on miserable beds, spread out upon the floor, or squatted or reclining upon the cold, unfurnished boards. Stepping over a prostrate, quarreling drunkard, I found little Sandy on a bed of Camenter's tthnvinirs nn flia Ann Ho I 0. ..., v was still in his rags, and a torn and scanty j coverlet had been thrown over him. Poor lad The was so obanged. His sharp, pallid face was clammy and cold beads of the sweat of agony stood on his brow bis bruised and mangled body lay motionless and still, except when sobs and moaning heaved his fluttering breast. A bloated woman in maudlin drurkenness (the dead or banished father's second wife) and not his mother) now and then bathed his lips with whiskey-and-water, while she applied to her own a bottle of spirits to drown the grief she hiccoughed and assumed. A Doctor from the Royal Infirmary had called nnd left some medicine to soothe t;r8t a3 he ought to have been, to the In firmary in the neigh boroaod,) but his tipsy nurse had forgotten to administer it' I applied it, and had him plaoed upon a less miserable bed of straw; and feeing a woman, and occupmt of the room, to attmil Mm duiin' the niirht. I cave what directions I coui.l, an 1 loft the dejjradid, eqillid home. Next morning, I was again iu B'ack-friar's Wynd. Ls close, pestilential air, and towering anliqun, dilapidated man' sions (the abodes of the peerage in far- olF times.) now struck rav senses. Above a doorway was carved upon the stone, 'fcxnept ye Lord do build ye house, ye builders build in vain." I said llo room was spacious; it was almost noble in its proportions. The walls of panelled oak sadly marred; a missive mantlepiece, of cunning carving, ruthh-saly broken and disfigured; ennm-eled tiles around the fireplace, once representing some Bible story, now sore despoiled and cracked; and the ceiling, festooned with an.ique fruits and flowers, shared in the general vandal wreck. With the exception of a broken chair, furniiure there was none in that stifling den. Its occurpants, said the surgeon, whom I found at the sufferer's bed, were chiefly of our city's pests, and the poor lad's step-mother who had taken Lim from the ragged school that she might diink of his pilful earnings was as tui k in infamy as any there. For the patient, medical skill was naught, for he was sinking fast. The soul' looking from his light blue eyes, was slowly ebbing out, his pallid cheeks were sunk and thin, but consciousness returned, nnd his lump was flickering up before it sunk forever. As I took his feeble hand, a flicker of recognition seemed to gleam across his face. ' 'I got the change, and was comin' ' 'Uy poor boy, you were very honest. t Have you any 'wish anything, poor child I can do for you? I promise to ' Rcuby,- I'm sure I'm deein'; wba wil' take care o' you noo?' Little Reuben was Instantly in a fit of crying, and threw himself prostrate on the bed. 'Oh, Sandy! Sandy! Sandy!' sobbed his little heart. 'I will see to your little brother.' 'Thank you sir! Dinna dinna leave me, Reu Reu by. I'm com comin' comin'' 'Wisht! wishtl' cried little Reub, looking up, and turning round to implore some silence in tbe room. That moment, tbe calm, faded smile, that seemed to have alighted as a momentary visitant upon his face, slowly passed away, the eyes became blank and glazs 1, and his little life imperceptibly rippled out. The honest boy lies in Canongate churchyard, not far from the gravestone put up by Burns to the memory of Ferguson, hi brother poet, and I have little Reuben at Dr. Guthrie's ragged school, and receive excellent accounts of him, and from him. 'Wnat of your Arab, Turner?'' said Philips', the following afternoon. 'Was he honest, and is he really ill?" Yes, Phillips, he was an honest I rab; but cow he is where the wicked oease from troubling, and the weary are at rest, G T., in Once a week. By telegraph we learn that kind of com promise has beep patched op. by the Douglas and Breckinridge men of Pennsylvania. The thing will hardly stick, Forney opposes it The Massacres in Syria How Znlileh itiu Cuptnrod Fifteou Ilumlrod Men anil Hojri Cut to Pioeoi Largo numbort, of Women Hii'vod by Otinni of Un.if'l State Conmj. Into lnHuonrH of Amorican Mimilonariua with IlruM'-Seri In lluirnt E.timmiiI in uf a Chrin-tiau A Night of Terror, Au., Ae. Correspond once of the Beaton Traveler. Beirut, Syria, July 2, 18Q0. The fall of Zahleh has Been followed by the most awful barbarites, unparalleled by the massacres of Cawr.pore, and India generally, at least so far as numbers are concerned. Zaleh was taken by stratagem, planned.it is is said,byan Englishman, who.having married a native wife, bas been living fur several years in Mount Lebanon. Surrounded by fifteen thousand mon, of the Druses, GypsieB, Me-tioualies and Bedouin Arabs, tho ten thousand fighting men ol Zaleh wore thrown hors du combat, and defeated, or rather driven out of their stronghold to the mountains of the Ives- nulftn. Tho attacking parly divided them- selves a-id attacked at different points at the same tituo leaving one place only unmen-nced. While the Christians were fighting valiantly at tho various points ofdanger.a letter was received purporting to be from a noted Christian Chief, promising to come to their relief with a band of two thousand mon, at a certain hour. Tnis gave new life and energy to the Christians within. At thj appointed time two thousand men, fully armed, were seen approaching Irom the direction which promised thorn aid, and when they j perceived the Christian standard floating over the advancing army, they renowed the conflict and rushed upon tho foe. Alas for the poor Christian? so cruelly bitrayod! The loiter was a forgery, the Christian standard a stolon one, and the two thousand armed mon entered the only exposed part of the town as friends, but proved to be their deadliest foes, who set Ore to tho houses and at tacked the besieged in the rear. Tho remain-1 iug Christians formed a squaro around their women and children and fought their way out, gradually rotroating, and thus evacuated the town, leaving it to be sacked, plundered and burnt. The Druses, not satisfied with this triumph, and determined to extirpate the Christians then rushed npoii Deir el Komr, which had previously surrendered and given up arms, thi owing itself upon the protection of the Turkish Governor and garrison. Hero, in one day, these Dends b: utally chopped in pie ces every mile inhabitant with hatchets, axes, swords, knives, and every other available weapon. Mora than Oituen hundred men aud boys thus perished under tho eyo of tho Governor, a Turk, and aided by the Turkish sol diers in the hellish work, 'i ho remainder of the six thousand inhabitants are wanderers and fugitives, cut down wherever they are found, without morcy. Two thousand wo-mon and children, many of whom were wounded, have been brought to Boirut by English ships of war, who picked them up along the sea coajt, and by Americans, aided by guards Irom the U. S. Consulate, brought many of the doomed and perishing upon their own horses to Beirut During this war Eng. lish and Americans have bien treated by all parties with great respect, and all Protestants who placed themselves under tbe protection of the Druses have been saved, for the sake of the Missionaries to whose congregations they belonged. Our missionaries have thus been able to relievo the distressed unharmed, and to rescue scores whose lives they have preserved by gingto the scene of action under tbe protection of the American Consulate, being accompanied by a Janizary or consular guard, witb his silvor headed staff of office. Some of tbe wounded have been brought to the sea shore by one of the Druse chiefs, who allowed his men to do the work of slaughter and then tried to save his own head in the day of reckoning by his attention to the wounded and his absence from the scene of massacro. Beirut, at tho date of my last lettor, was a 8ceneof wild confusion aud excitement. An attack was hourly expected from 'he Druses Irom without, while the Moslems were threatening the lives of the Christians within the town. Many Franks fled to tbe shipping in tho harbor, aud thousands of tbe natives closed their shops and rushed to the Kesrou an, the only remaining district of Mt. Lebanon yet uninvaded by the Dru3es. No confidence was felt in the Government the troops could not be trusted, and tbe death of a Moslem by the hand of a Christian had wrought the Moslem population into the greatest fury. Tne military Pasha went himself through tho streets urging the armed multitudes to disband and disarm, but all to no purpose. Moslem boys went about armed with hatchets, clubs, and other weapons. And Moslem women cried out in public places for tbe blood of the Christians, In the afternoon the armed populace gathered in front of the Governor Genoral's palace, aud demanded the immediate execution of tho Christian accused of the murder. The excitement at this time was terriflo. Franks, and consuls, even, were njt safe in the streets. An ofllcurof the British line of-battle ship Exmoulb, now lying in the harbor, wtsTusulwd and menaced by a MosUin, who presented a pistol at his bead; two oth er Englishmen saw pistols snapped at their breasts, and the French consul general was greatly endangered; as he entered the place a Moslem sprang forward and struck at him witi a sabre. No blood was drawn; tb man was struck down by bis associates, sod no further notice was taken of the matter tbe FrenoQ consul wishing no doubt to bide his time. , Tho British commander, however, was not so peaceably inclined, and issued orders oa tho following day, that every oflloer should go on shore armed wiib revolver and shoot I down the first Moslem who, should offer any indignity 'whatever, and communicated the same to the Pasha. The local authsrities, In the abacnoo of the Governor General, were greatly perplexed. The acting Gov. General ordered the trial of the aooused; he was found guilty In a few hours and sentenced to death under a tremendous outside pressure. They did jot dare to execute him, the Governor General being absent, but the cries of the mob increased to such an extent that a general massacre was feared, 'the acting General was in despair. To save the town he must execute tho Christian; to executo the Christian under such a mob pros-sure would endanger his own head. General Kinoty, or Ismail Pasha, as he is . called in the Turkish service, a Christian and a Protestant, did much to rjsiore confidence. I i no consular nouy sent tor mm to ascertain what means he had for preserving the public j peace. Ho was absent in the mountain;-- wtien he returned lio was sent for again; be . wastnon witn tne acting Uovernor, reviewing the evidence of the caso o! the Christian) having been sent for to share in the responsibility of his death. The evidence having been completed, the acting Governor General, j accompanied by Ismail Fash a proceeded at once to the British Consulate Qoneral, hore the leading Consuls were assembled. They wished for advice they knew not what to do. They declared thit the murderer had been arrested, tried and found guilty by a legal tribunal, and that he had been justly condemned to (leah. Questions were asked as to the right of a Governor General to cx ecute a criminal. They contended that hu had that right in groat emergencies, but that his approval o' the sentence was necessary to its validity. They thorefore wUhed to await his ariival, but dared not inasmuch as the populace threatened the town that night if the bead of tin accused wero not given them. After somo dolibeiation the consular body, without expressing any opinion as to tho guilt of the accused, or the necessity for his immediate execution, requested the acting Governor to exercise the tunctiuus of the oflL-e of Governor General while occupying that position. This was enough. The acting Moushier or Governor General rushed from the room to the palace, and in less than an hour a crier was sent through tho city orying that the murderer should bo executed at once. In another hour the head of the unfortunate victim rolled upon the ground, while shouts of rejoicing filled the air, and the Moslems returned to their homes. But there was no sleep that night for Christians, Frank or Syrian. A platoon of soldiers was stationed at the bouse of every Consul for tbe protection of tho Frank residents. That night the house of the American Consul was filled, and signals were prepared and agreed upon betweon the fleet and Consuls. One blue light would indicate danger; a second a desire for boats in which to take refuge; and a third, the necessity for the landing of troops for the protection the Franks. The long night wore away and Sunday morn ing dawned upon us, witnessing no unusual sight save a crowd of Moslems standing around the beheaded Christian, spitting upon and otherwise maltreating his remains. The old men of the town had succeeded in the Moslem councils, and through their representations it was deemed inexpedient to attack tbe Christians. The wcliiu was taken from the prison to the open square, and was there made to kneel, having his hands tied behind. An opportunity was then offer ed for the relatives of the deceased to com promise fur money; but they cried so much the more, '"Kill biiul kill himl we will be satisfiod by nothing but his blood!" The executioner, who was one of the police of the town, then turuck the kneeling Christian a light blow upon the bead in order to throw it upon one side, thus presenting a greater portion of the neck tothesworl; then fol lowed by a heavy blow upon the neck, but several more were required to sever thj head from tbe trunk. These particulars mere communicated by Moslem servants, who do not participate in tbe fanaticism of the day Day after day bas since passad away, each succeeding one bringing desk alarms and news of horrible butcheries from Mt. Leban on. Last week, the Consuls General of the five Powers of Europe, which have guaranteed the integrity of tho Ottoman Empire, concluded to act together, in obedienco to the in structions, for putting down of the wir. They commissioned Cyril Graham, I be fa mous English traveler and explorer, to go to tbe Chiefs ol the Druses nation, and warn them of tbe danger of provoking European opposition by the commission of further atro cities upon the Christians. He has not yet returned; but be has written to friends in Beirut that he has utterly failed. If the Druses fear not ther five great Powors of En rope, there cao be no more safety for Franks in Syria, and another massacre of Christians will indicate their intention to attack Beirut. Tbe British Admiral has already offered his vessels fur the protection of Americans, and to receive them on board in case of need during lbs absence of an American versol ol war. This is very courteous upon his part; but our Consul regrets the necessity of de pending upon foreign aid at such a time. If ws bad an American vessel of war here now, we m ight be more independent. FUaTHXB DETAILS ST AB ITK-WITHESS. . In addition to the above narrative, tbe fol lowing extraots from a letter to the American Christian Roview of this eity, by Rev, Dr. J. T. Barclay, the very intelligent missionary of the Christian Church at Jerusalem', will be rend with interest, lie writes Iroir. Beirut. under date of June 3)ih, as lo'.tnw: HIS LBUif.S a so MAUUWITaH. Allow ma to premise In oider that I way bo the better understood that the Druses occupy that por'ion of the Lebanon ranges lying south of this city, and the Marouites the norihorn portions the boundary line be-tweon the two, however, being rather indefinite; and here the two parties are somewhat intermixed. It must also In borne in miod that the Mernnilea are demoted Romanists; and that the Drupes, though professing a kind of chanielion faith, compounded of a little Judaism, a good deal of Islatuivm and a spill of Christianity, are nevertheless, the veriest hoathen idolators that ever bowed down to 8t(wk 0r stoneworshipping as they do to tnis j, t gu(f caif. They are natural and jtnpiiobl enemies of each other a'.waya at W1ri honce t10 puity of their popula (ionthe Maronites not numbering more ,ljaa 230,000, aad the Drus.-s not exceeding a f(lurth part uf that numWr. though inhabi- tjne 9C miny centuries "tbe glory of Mban on." It must also be remcinbereoi, U we would rightly comprehend the bearng of this Woody war, that France has the Maronitca un(er her speoul protection while England, in order to neutraliz) the inil lonco thus ex crcised by Franco in Syrian affairs, has ta ken the Druses under her expands 1 wing- tu. evident object of each nation (as sufhVent- ly evinced in the establishment of two rival Arabic papers for their special use) being the creation, of such an interest in Turkey as will secure tha largest slice when, that much cov i eled fowl hhall be served up to gratify the longing appetite of the great political gorman-, :.1'ts of Ljrorw. causes OF THK CfTaRKAX. j pearancei a nspectable tanner. C lvin soo i The present Druse-Marouite war broke oul ' disappeared from Manchester and has nevev somo six or eiht weeks ago; originating pro- j boon seen kino. Thus matters stood, unt l fessedly in the revengeful determination qfja few days ao. wlj-n Je;e Boon, who is tbe Druses to kill some twenty or thirty Ma- inow upward uf seventy years old, was at. ronites in retaliation by way of squaring off rested for counterfeiting and lodge I in thi tho accounts ol last year's war, when the to-1 Cleveland Jt.il. Sm after his inca.roera'io'i, t il loss of tho Druses exceeded that of the Maroniies by that number. Tba knowing ones, however, allega that this is a mere pre- tf.xt ba'ohed up to cover over a deep djsign, originating in quite anotner quarter, uui pirhaps it is ' est (hough I had intended to aay muoh in relation to llio origin aud causes of the war Mia: I should hay noihing more nn the subject, lust it be regarded as mere idle speculation, if not evil surmising and disrespect to the "powers that be." TUE TURKISH SOLDIERS PARTICIPANTS lit THK ATROCITIES. After dose; ibing at length the terrible bar barities piactioed by the Druses on their vio- tiuis, acoount; of which have already appeared in our columns, the writer proceeds: It Is said, however, that the worst of their fate was generally inflicted by the Pasha's rough scldkrs," who hung around the Druse army like so u any vultures, ready to pounce upon the prey. And oerta'u it is that the Druses have been known in several instances to make proclamati n before attacking a village, that all the "Protestants" who would come out and deliver up their arms should be spared, and have sacredly kept their promise, while the Moslems have uniformly slaughtered them after thus inveigling them into their power; or if they did not actually commit the slaughter themselves, they per mitted the Druses to do it. WONDERFUL PRESCBVATIOH OF THK AMERICA AtlSSIOMAUIES. Whilst numbers of the natives who nomi nally profess Protestant principles have been slaughtered in edd blood, only a doseo or two of the converts are known to have been killed. And it is a fact highly significant, that not a single member of any of the missionary families hat received any personal injury the f rty bullets found lodged in and about Mr. Bird's bouse having, no doubt, as is now believed, been unintentionally discharged in that direction in the confusion of the general battle. Several of th missionary families reposed so much coufl deuce in the Druse sheiks that, though . nt for by the consul under the protection of a Government escort, they concluded to remain at their stations, not only to protect their converts, but because they deemed it safer at that stage of the war to remain there than to venture down into the city. Oue o' their large tine churches, however, has been destroyed and siveral of their school houses. So highly was the influeaoe of th missionaries appreciated that as much as 10,000 piasters were paid to tbe Moslems, by a Maronite, fur permission to knock at the door of on ol the missionaries! Nor was it doamed by him a bard bargain, for thereby he saved bis life.- But while the American missionaries have oscaped so well, far otherwise bas i t bM n with the Latin and Greek priests, many of whom bar been most oruelly murdered and their property, to immense amount, deatroyed. Not less, probably, than twenty large convents have been pillaged and destroyed; and amongst other items of value, of wbicb they flod themselves minus, is a highly gemmed golden cross, the gift of Napoleon Bonaparte valued at twelve hundred pounds sterling. Immensely val abte silk factories, owned by toreign capitalists, principally Italians, have been destroyed. Indeed, Apollyoa bimtslf (who, by tbe by, baa been in secret league with them all lbs while) eould seareely de-sir greater havoc than these fiendish Druses have committed on the fertile slopes of Lebanon. .Till IATSST. In a pos'.aciipt, Dr. Barclay thus describes ths results of so embassy to tbe chief of the mountains by the representatives of the "Five j Powers," usdrtakn for the purpose-of tw dug a peaoe on the Druse anj Maronttse. 1 have ist seen Mr. Graham, and hs Informs me that hi mifsion Is altogether ia. vain. Strongly backed by the Pasha, (who, by the by, Is not yet disposed.) the infatuat4 Druses seem bent on a war of utter ex termination, Mr. O. mentioned that in pa. . sing through several of the ruinad Maroniu ' viljagos he was sometimes compePed to retreat and take another street, on ak ;i,t of the heaps of dead bodies. Many . ' leaving, and all preparing to leave on c notice of a bombardment from the ha. Vi i.i-an attack from the mountains; and yl uii is the safest place in all Syria. Bad i.o.i i from Jerusalem, Tripoli and Aleppo, Tv of the missionary families have lelt, oneoiu will leave in a few days, and perhaps s ethers in the course oj w:qk or tw. An Old Myatory RavftaJ- ' Iu the year lMo two brother, Jesse ltd, Stephen Boon, were convicted of the in,i i .8 of their biolhrr in-law, Russell Col.i.i, at Manc'iester, (V't.) Before their trial Jj..j lloon confessed the n.urler, and stated I'm. Stephen was bis accomplice. Other circn u- stances such a the On ling of the inurdu, jf man's clothing, knife, , together with ula bones, at (he fplace indievel by Jeftse jra proven, and tho two were sentenced to ba hung on the id U of J wrier, H'JO. Jesse's punishment was commuted to in-prison mi it fbr life by the Vermont L"go- u turo, whits Stephen was left to his fate. (. t the day that Stephen was to have been ex cntad ItiiKall n.dvin annenrol in juvnir.',, tu.. . . Minc,ia;.t . of . th nf , . prisoner were released. Ji-sss Boon soo i tftw , he 'Burton, Oeauga county, and became to, all it is said, he confessed to Deputy Marshal Hackett thit he and his brother Stephen dit in rtality kill Colvin, and that the person who appeared in Mmehes'er on the dar fixed fur the execution was a crazy roan front New Jersey, who so much resembled the mmdeied man as to deceive not only his olt acquaintances in that town, but that th wid-ow, family, and (riviids of the murdered man reocgnized hiin as tho long loat lyibaad, father, and brother. The Cleveland Hera) 1 uf July 3h, after recounting the above story in detail, as well as the recent arrest for counterfeiting, and expressing Us diatrust of many of the "sensation stories" which find their way into the newspapers, aids the following: "This morning we visited Jess noon In the county jail, where he is on fined on the ohargo f counterfeiting. He positively da-nid the statement in a eity paper that he he had confessed to Doputy Marshal Hacketa his connection with the murder of Colvin, and had told Hacketl that the man who came from New Jersey was a bogus Colvin, . lecttd for tbispurpiseon account of personal resemblance to the murdered man. Iia atory to us was rambling and incoherent, whioh might be accounted for by his age and palsiedl state, but he strenuously denied that Col vie was murdered, and in the main confirms th story narrated above. He made ho allusion to the confessions made on tbe trial, but lays tbe fact of the arrests on th nalioe of a man charged with forgery, who was promid hit liberty if be could give a.iy information in r-gard to Cotvin'a fate. 'Jesse Boon is about seventy yean of age, ' white headed, and afflicted with dumb patiy. He protest! his inrocenco, not only of the ciime of murder, but of thit on which be ia nw ander arrtst." THE NEWS. Ths Ypsilantl (Mich ,) Smtintl, beretofb a strong Democratic journal, has run up t! Republican flag. It is said that Mr. Rarey, the horse tarn will soon return to tbe United Stales, wi money enough to set up a bank. He L been remarkably successful in Europe. Senator Trumbull did not vote fbr a re. flcation of the Mexican treaty, as confident' stated in the N. Y. Tmti, nor favor It in at share or form. 1 Mrs. Marl Toit of Patteraen X. J pi red on Sunday ,at th great ge of en hu dred and six year. Her husband who di. in 1847, was an officer io the revolnlwoai; army. Another slaver was captured In the Qu'. waters on the 3d of May, having on boar! Bom 600 Afrieans,by tbe U. 8. steamer Cm k sader, Lieut. Comdt. John M. Maffiit. Th- ' wr sent to Key West, making some I.TW of these beings at that place. ' f The wbrle nnmber of miles ran o tb II , linol Central Railroad, during the ntoalh c ,' April, wan 178,846,' at an average coat f-t: mil of 27-IT cents. This include ill other xpenditores (upennUoding, wages of epgut- e ear ana nrvuta, oil, wuii, ec., ccet A Yankee, from Maine, being at (paa Vista th night before th battle an4 tea what doubtful of tb wait, went cut of hear ing, as be supposed, and. sada tb following , prayer: : ... , , ) "0 Lord, Kr are, aWot iaaa tbeomd ' of. as, and twenty thousand M!en ' noogh to swallow as witbeutgreasirg Kew If you eea belp as de it and if yoa eaa't, l ' Heaven's sake don't help th Meiioan ! just hold oa antil to-morrow, and yoa wil' see tb gaul damdeat fight yoa vr taw k yotttjlle. Xu respectfully, mV . 4. '" rt 8 1, ; ' pi tt is IK.' 1 r:. V

f HI Iff IflMlI '' MPBIMIfM ; Vol, VI. MouiffT trmrtisroDT,. ..OZtXO," TIIUnSDAT, AUQUST xo, lcqa Wo. 1X ''''THE rE"W. 'Tii not the copious rains alone Which Wets the parched soil; The gentle dews I hit nightly tail, Itewatd the Bower's t)il. Vrseen, unheard, the dows descend, Like slumber on the mind; Ami on the thirsty hills and fields A blessing leave behind. In the cool stillness of the night The dreoping plants revive The grass and every tender herb With their sweet inllueuce thrive. See, lifted on each pointed blade, How bright the dew drops shine! And learn in trusting, humble faith To trace the Hand Divine. That, though no clouds their fullness drop, In answer to our prayer; Still we may own, from day to day, Our God for us doth care. AN HONEST ARAB. We bad been on a fishing tuur in the Highlands, and, en route to town, were idling a day or two in "the grey metropolis of the portb." "Scotchman, Xpress, Merkerry, Fewzees, penny a bunder this day's Scotchman, sir?" shouted a shrill-piped, ragged little imp, at the fag end of a cold, wet, bitter day in October, as we stood blowing a cloud at the door of the New Royal in Princess Street, "'o; we don't want any." "Fewzees, penny a bander, sir; this day's paper, sir, half price only a bawbee;" persisted the young countryman of Adam Smith, as the market showed symptoms of decline, and threatened to close decidedly flit. Ojt along. Bird's Eye, we don't want any," growled Philips. "They're gude fevrzjes, sir, penny a bunder," Don't smoke;" Philips kquitur, wl.iff, whiff, whiff. "They're gude fuwz.es, sir, hunderand twenty for a penny, sir," coming round on my flank. "No, we" don't want 'em, my boy." The keen blue face, red bare feet, ingrained with dirt, and bun le of scan'y rag, looked pileously up at me, moved off " a little, but still hovered around u. Now, when I put down my first subscription to the One Tun Raggad School in Westmin ister, I took a mental pledge from myself to encourage vagrant children iu the streets no more. Somehow, in this instance, that pledge would nt stand by me, but gave way. "Give me a penny'ortb, young un." 'Yes, sir, they dinna smell." "If the lueifer's don't, the son of Lucifer does," threw in Philips. "Ah, I haven't got a copper, little 'un, nothing less than a shilling; so, never mind, my boy, I'll buy from you to morrow.""Buy them the nicbt, if you please. I'm very hung-grey, sir." "He'll give you his check for the balance, Geff." His little, cold face, which had lighted up, now fell, for, from his bundle of pa pers, I saw bis sales bad ben few that day. "I'll gang for tbe change, sir." "Well, little 'un, I'll try you there is a shilliog now be a good b y, and bring me the change to-morrow morning to the hotel ask for Mr. Turner. "Give my friend your word of honor, as a gentleman, for the bob." As sure'a death, sir, I'll bring tbe change in the morn," was tbe promise of young Lucifer, before he vanished with the shilling. "Well, Turner," as we slrolled along Princes street, "you don't expect to see your brimstone friend, agaiu, do you?" "I do." 'Your friend will dishonor his I. 0. U., as cure as" -"Well, I won't grieve about the money; but I think I can trust yon boy." Can? Why youjiave trusted him; and your deliberation savors remarkably of the . historical stable keeper, who began to think about shutting the door when but the illustration don't seem to strike jm as a novelty." "Well, we'll see." "Yes, wonders, but not young Brimstone and your money." Next morning, we were on the Roslin stBge, to "do" the wonderful little chapel there. It is a perfect little gem. and its traatry, and its witchery, and its flowers, and fruits and stony stories charm and delight the civilized eye and soul as fresh to-day as (hey did the rude barbarians four centuries ago. I never visit Edinburgh, but I go and see that little chapel It Roslin, and always endeavor to have a fresh compan-, pa with me, to watch the new delight and joy he receives, and of which I am a partaker, too. put to return to the Roslin stage. We were stopped near the Univer-sary by a crowd congregated round some ' wretch brought to grief by the race-horse pace of a butcher's cart. A working man raised something in his arms, and, followed by the 'crowd, bore it off. "It was ovtr thereabouts, Philip." I Slid, during the block-up, "that Lord Darnley, of exalted memory, was blown up in the Kirk o' the Fields, to which bky. rocketing Mary of Scotland and the Lies, Regina, his beauteous, loving, and ill-Btarred spouse, was said to bej a privy and consenting party." "Nothing peculiarly interesting or uncommon in that episode of connubial bliss, I should think, friend of mine. Blrwn up, my boyl One of dearebt woman's dearest privileges that's what you may look forward to, when you pledge your plighted troth." "Blown up by gunpowder, Charley, Guy Faux fashion, though. Thai's Darnley's garden wall close by lluit public house, and that's the doorway of it built up." "Quite right, too. No bnckways to the tap, says I. And Darnley be darned and blowed, too; but why don't Jehu handle liis ribbons, and si it up liisihorough-bieds? Now, then, ote o'clock, the stage awaits." "Did ye sae ane o'clock, tir?" returned Jarvie, rustling his ribbons, after we had gone a little way. "I'm thinkin' ye're gey wee acquaint wi' that hour, 'the wee short hour ayont the twul,' as Kobbie snys. Wad ye hae me drive or, regardless o' life or lim', end may -be rundir anither brain li'eless or an or j ct for life? Na, na; ane o'clock ktns better." "What's put your pipe out, Charley, you neither smoke nor speak. Uas 'ane o'clock' put it on the stopper?" I houp not, Mr meant ne tflVnceJ, poor i-g Bj,onT( (for llis ca9e wa9 ir,"said Concliee, who beard me. "LooR hopeless; even though he had been taken ye, there's Craigmillar Castle, win re puir, Queen Mary eptnt nTftw, o' her happy days; ard there's Blackford Hill, where tMr Walier says M irmiuii stood and saw "Sueh dusky grandeur clothe the hijjht, Where tho huge C'nsilo hulls its state, And alt the stoop tluue down, AVIiojo ridgy baefc hoave? to tho sky, Piled den) mid tn-iwy, ohiso nnd bi;jli, Mine own roiu:intie tewn!" Arid that's Liberton, viler.; Mr. Butler, in the Heart if Mid Lothian, was Dominie, And ynnder's I'urdie House, there's rare fossil fish and other crealurs gut at its lime quarries, they tell me. Ah! I've mony a lime seen puir Hugh Miller, wha's dead und gone, out here ladened wi' bits o stnnes tbut In- ca'd line specimens, and gae'd lang nebbed foreign names to. Bur-die House, ye km, is Scotch for Bordeaux House, a place whtre some of Mary's foreign courtiers lived; and that village you see pw'r by my whip was built for her French flunkeys, and ca'd Little France to this very day." On our return to the inn, I inquired: . "Waiter, did a little boy call for me today?""Boy, sii? call, air? No, sir." "Of course, Geff, he didu't. Did you really expect to see your young Arab again?" "Indeed, I did, Charley; I wish he had proved honest." "Then, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning, how thou art fallm!" Later in the evening, a small boy was introduced, who wished to speak with me He was a diudecimo edition of the email octavo of the previous day, got up with less outlay of capital a shoeless, shirtless, shruuk, ragged, wretched, keen-witted Arab of the streets and closes of the city. He was so very small, and cold and childlike though with the same shivering feet and frame, thin, blue-cold face, down which tears had worn their weary chan-dels that I saw at once the child was not my friend of the previous night. "Enter Antonio to redeem his bond!' Philips, loquitur. He stood for a few moments diving and rummaging into the recesses of his rags; at last little Tom Thumb said: - .'Are you the gentleman that boucht fewz es frae Sandy yesterday?" 'Yes, my little man.' Wee!, here's seven-pence (counting out d'vers copper coins;) Sandy canna come; he's no wee); a cart ran ow'r him the day, and broken his legs, and lost his bannet and his fewzees, and your four-pence- , and his knife, nnd he's no weel. no weel, ava, and the doo tor says he'sNrwdee in--and that's a he can gie you, noo." And the poor child, com mencing with sobs, ended in a sore fit of crying. I gave him food, fur though his cup o' sorrow was full enough, his stomach was empty, as he looked wistfully at the display on the tea-table. 'Are you Sandy's brother?" 'Ay, sir;' and the floodgates of his heart again opened ' Where do you live? Are your father and mother alive?" 'We bide in Blackfriars' Wynd in the Coogate. My mither is dead, and father's awa: and we bide whiles wi' pur gude mither," sobbing bitterly, "Where did this accident happen?' "Near the college sir." Calling a cab, we were speedily set d,on at uiackmara' Wynd. J bad never peno trated the wretchedness of those 'ancient closes by day, and here I entered one by night, and almost alone. Preceded by my little guide, I entered a dark, wide, wind ing stair, until, climbing many flights of stairs in fatal darkness, he opened a door, whence a light maintained a feeble unequal btruggle with a thick, close-sraelling.heavy gloom. My courage nearly gave way, as the spectacle of that room burst upon me. In an apartment, certainly spacious in extent, but scarcely made visible by one gut-terinjj candle etuck in a bottle, were an overcrowded mass of human beings sleep-on miserable beds, spread out upon the floor, or squatted or reclining upon the cold, unfurnished boards. Stepping over a prostrate, quarreling drunkard, I found little Sandy on a bed of Camenter's tthnvinirs nn flia Ann Ho I 0. ..., v was still in his rags, and a torn and scanty j coverlet had been thrown over him. Poor lad The was so obanged. His sharp, pallid face was clammy and cold beads of the sweat of agony stood on his brow bis bruised and mangled body lay motionless and still, except when sobs and moaning heaved his fluttering breast. A bloated woman in maudlin drurkenness (the dead or banished father's second wife) and not his mother) now and then bathed his lips with whiskey-and-water, while she applied to her own a bottle of spirits to drown the grief she hiccoughed and assumed. A Doctor from the Royal Infirmary had called nnd left some medicine to soothe t;r8t a3 he ought to have been, to the In firmary in the neigh boroaod,) but his tipsy nurse had forgotten to administer it' I applied it, and had him plaoed upon a less miserable bed of straw; and feeing a woman, and occupmt of the room, to attmil Mm duiin' the niirht. I cave what directions I coui.l, an 1 loft the dejjradid, eqillid home. Next morning, I was again iu B'ack-friar's Wynd. Ls close, pestilential air, and towering anliqun, dilapidated man' sions (the abodes of the peerage in far- olF times.) now struck rav senses. Above a doorway was carved upon the stone, 'fcxnept ye Lord do build ye house, ye builders build in vain." I said llo room was spacious; it was almost noble in its proportions. The walls of panelled oak sadly marred; a missive mantlepiece, of cunning carving, ruthh-saly broken and disfigured; ennm-eled tiles around the fireplace, once representing some Bible story, now sore despoiled and cracked; and the ceiling, festooned with an.ique fruits and flowers, shared in the general vandal wreck. With the exception of a broken chair, furniiure there was none in that stifling den. Its occurpants, said the surgeon, whom I found at the sufferer's bed, were chiefly of our city's pests, and the poor lad's step-mother who had taken Lim from the ragged school that she might diink of his pilful earnings was as tui k in infamy as any there. For the patient, medical skill was naught, for he was sinking fast. The soul' looking from his light blue eyes, was slowly ebbing out, his pallid cheeks were sunk and thin, but consciousness returned, nnd his lump was flickering up before it sunk forever. As I took his feeble hand, a flicker of recognition seemed to gleam across his face. ' 'I got the change, and was comin' ' 'Uy poor boy, you were very honest. t Have you any 'wish anything, poor child I can do for you? I promise to ' Rcuby,- I'm sure I'm deein'; wba wil' take care o' you noo?' Little Reuben was Instantly in a fit of crying, and threw himself prostrate on the bed. 'Oh, Sandy! Sandy! Sandy!' sobbed his little heart. 'I will see to your little brother.' 'Thank you sir! Dinna dinna leave me, Reu Reu by. I'm com comin' comin'' 'Wisht! wishtl' cried little Reub, looking up, and turning round to implore some silence in tbe room. That moment, tbe calm, faded smile, that seemed to have alighted as a momentary visitant upon his face, slowly passed away, the eyes became blank and glazs 1, and his little life imperceptibly rippled out. The honest boy lies in Canongate churchyard, not far from the gravestone put up by Burns to the memory of Ferguson, hi brother poet, and I have little Reuben at Dr. Guthrie's ragged school, and receive excellent accounts of him, and from him. 'Wnat of your Arab, Turner?'' said Philips', the following afternoon. 'Was he honest, and is he really ill?" Yes, Phillips, he was an honest I rab; but cow he is where the wicked oease from troubling, and the weary are at rest, G T., in Once a week. By telegraph we learn that kind of com promise has beep patched op. by the Douglas and Breckinridge men of Pennsylvania. The thing will hardly stick, Forney opposes it The Massacres in Syria How Znlileh itiu Cuptnrod Fifteou Ilumlrod Men anil Hojri Cut to Pioeoi Largo numbort, of Women Hii'vod by Otinni of Un.if'l State Conmj. Into lnHuonrH of Amorican Mimilonariua with IlruM'-Seri In lluirnt E.timmiiI in uf a Chrin-tiau A Night of Terror, Au., Ae. Correspond once of the Beaton Traveler. Beirut, Syria, July 2, 18Q0. The fall of Zahleh has Been followed by the most awful barbarites, unparalleled by the massacres of Cawr.pore, and India generally, at least so far as numbers are concerned. Zaleh was taken by stratagem, planned.it is is said,byan Englishman, who.having married a native wife, bas been living fur several years in Mount Lebanon. Surrounded by fifteen thousand mon, of the Druses, GypsieB, Me-tioualies and Bedouin Arabs, tho ten thousand fighting men ol Zaleh wore thrown hors du combat, and defeated, or rather driven out of their stronghold to the mountains of the Ives- nulftn. Tho attacking parly divided them- selves a-id attacked at different points at the same tituo leaving one place only unmen-nced. While the Christians were fighting valiantly at tho various points ofdanger.a letter was received purporting to be from a noted Christian Chief, promising to come to their relief with a band of two thousand mon, at a certain hour. Tnis gave new life and energy to the Christians within. At thj appointed time two thousand men, fully armed, were seen approaching Irom the direction which promised thorn aid, and when they j perceived the Christian standard floating over the advancing army, they renowed the conflict and rushed upon tho foe. Alas for the poor Christian? so cruelly bitrayod! The loiter was a forgery, the Christian standard a stolon one, and the two thousand armed mon entered the only exposed part of the town as friends, but proved to be their deadliest foes, who set Ore to tho houses and at tacked the besieged in the rear. Tho remain-1 iug Christians formed a squaro around their women and children and fought their way out, gradually rotroating, and thus evacuated the town, leaving it to be sacked, plundered and burnt. The Druses, not satisfied with this triumph, and determined to extirpate the Christians then rushed npoii Deir el Komr, which had previously surrendered and given up arms, thi owing itself upon the protection of the Turkish Governor and garrison. Hero, in one day, these Dends b: utally chopped in pie ces every mile inhabitant with hatchets, axes, swords, knives, and every other available weapon. Mora than Oituen hundred men aud boys thus perished under tho eyo of tho Governor, a Turk, and aided by the Turkish sol diers in the hellish work, 'i ho remainder of the six thousand inhabitants are wanderers and fugitives, cut down wherever they are found, without morcy. Two thousand wo-mon and children, many of whom were wounded, have been brought to Boirut by English ships of war, who picked them up along the sea coajt, and by Americans, aided by guards Irom the U. S. Consulate, brought many of the doomed and perishing upon their own horses to Beirut During this war Eng. lish and Americans have bien treated by all parties with great respect, and all Protestants who placed themselves under tbe protection of the Druses have been saved, for the sake of the Missionaries to whose congregations they belonged. Our missionaries have thus been able to relievo the distressed unharmed, and to rescue scores whose lives they have preserved by gingto the scene of action under tbe protection of the American Consulate, being accompanied by a Janizary or consular guard, witb his silvor headed staff of office. Some of tbe wounded have been brought to the sea shore by one of the Druse chiefs, who allowed his men to do the work of slaughter and then tried to save his own head in the day of reckoning by his attention to the wounded and his absence from the scene of massacro. Beirut, at tho date of my last lettor, was a 8ceneof wild confusion aud excitement. An attack was hourly expected from 'he Druses Irom without, while the Moslems were threatening the lives of the Christians within the town. Many Franks fled to tbe shipping in tho harbor, aud thousands of tbe natives closed their shops and rushed to the Kesrou an, the only remaining district of Mt. Lebanon yet uninvaded by the Dru3es. No confidence was felt in the Government the troops could not be trusted, and tbe death of a Moslem by the hand of a Christian had wrought the Moslem population into the greatest fury. Tne military Pasha went himself through tho streets urging the armed multitudes to disband and disarm, but all to no purpose. Moslem boys went about armed with hatchets, clubs, and other weapons. And Moslem women cried out in public places for tbe blood of the Christians, In the afternoon the armed populace gathered in front of the Governor Genoral's palace, aud demanded the immediate execution of tho Christian accused of the murder. The excitement at this time was terriflo. Franks, and consuls, even, were njt safe in the streets. An ofllcurof the British line of-battle ship Exmoulb, now lying in the harbor, wtsTusulwd and menaced by a MosUin, who presented a pistol at his bead; two oth er Englishmen saw pistols snapped at their breasts, and the French consul general was greatly endangered; as he entered the place a Moslem sprang forward and struck at him witi a sabre. No blood was drawn; tb man was struck down by bis associates, sod no further notice was taken of the matter tbe FrenoQ consul wishing no doubt to bide his time. , Tho British commander, however, was not so peaceably inclined, and issued orders oa tho following day, that every oflloer should go on shore armed wiib revolver and shoot I down the first Moslem who, should offer any indignity 'whatever, and communicated the same to the Pasha. The local authsrities, In the abacnoo of the Governor General, were greatly perplexed. The acting Gov. General ordered the trial of the aooused; he was found guilty In a few hours and sentenced to death under a tremendous outside pressure. They did jot dare to execute him, the Governor General being absent, but the cries of the mob increased to such an extent that a general massacre was feared, 'the acting General was in despair. To save the town he must execute tho Christian; to executo the Christian under such a mob pros-sure would endanger his own head. General Kinoty, or Ismail Pasha, as he is . called in the Turkish service, a Christian and a Protestant, did much to rjsiore confidence. I i no consular nouy sent tor mm to ascertain what means he had for preserving the public j peace. Ho was absent in the mountain;-- wtien he returned lio was sent for again; be . wastnon witn tne acting Uovernor, reviewing the evidence of the caso o! the Christian) having been sent for to share in the responsibility of his death. The evidence having been completed, the acting Governor General, j accompanied by Ismail Fash a proceeded at once to the British Consulate Qoneral, hore the leading Consuls were assembled. They wished for advice they knew not what to do. They declared thit the murderer had been arrested, tried and found guilty by a legal tribunal, and that he had been justly condemned to (leah. Questions were asked as to the right of a Governor General to cx ecute a criminal. They contended that hu had that right in groat emergencies, but that his approval o' the sentence was necessary to its validity. They thorefore wUhed to await his ariival, but dared not inasmuch as the populace threatened the town that night if the bead of tin accused wero not given them. After somo dolibeiation the consular body, without expressing any opinion as to tho guilt of the accused, or the necessity for his immediate execution, requested the acting Governor to exercise the tunctiuus of the oflL-e of Governor General while occupying that position. This was enough. The acting Moushier or Governor General rushed from the room to the palace, and in less than an hour a crier was sent through tho city orying that the murderer should bo executed at once. In another hour the head of the unfortunate victim rolled upon the ground, while shouts of rejoicing filled the air, and the Moslems returned to their homes. But there was no sleep that night for Christians, Frank or Syrian. A platoon of soldiers was stationed at the bouse of every Consul for tbe protection of tho Frank residents. That night the house of the American Consul was filled, and signals were prepared and agreed upon betweon the fleet and Consuls. One blue light would indicate danger; a second a desire for boats in which to take refuge; and a third, the necessity for the landing of troops for the protection the Franks. The long night wore away and Sunday morn ing dawned upon us, witnessing no unusual sight save a crowd of Moslems standing around the beheaded Christian, spitting upon and otherwise maltreating his remains. The old men of the town had succeeded in the Moslem councils, and through their representations it was deemed inexpedient to attack tbe Christians. The wcliiu was taken from the prison to the open square, and was there made to kneel, having his hands tied behind. An opportunity was then offer ed for the relatives of the deceased to com promise fur money; but they cried so much the more, '"Kill biiul kill himl we will be satisfiod by nothing but his blood!" The executioner, who was one of the police of the town, then turuck the kneeling Christian a light blow upon the bead in order to throw it upon one side, thus presenting a greater portion of the neck tothesworl; then fol lowed by a heavy blow upon the neck, but several more were required to sever thj head from tbe trunk. These particulars mere communicated by Moslem servants, who do not participate in tbe fanaticism of the day Day after day bas since passad away, each succeeding one bringing desk alarms and news of horrible butcheries from Mt. Leban on. Last week, the Consuls General of the five Powers of Europe, which have guaranteed the integrity of tho Ottoman Empire, concluded to act together, in obedienco to the in structions, for putting down of the wir. They commissioned Cyril Graham, I be fa mous English traveler and explorer, to go to tbe Chiefs ol the Druses nation, and warn them of tbe danger of provoking European opposition by the commission of further atro cities upon the Christians. He has not yet returned; but be has written to friends in Beirut that he has utterly failed. If the Druses fear not ther five great Powors of En rope, there cao be no more safety for Franks in Syria, and another massacre of Christians will indicate their intention to attack Beirut. Tbe British Admiral has already offered his vessels fur the protection of Americans, and to receive them on board in case of need during lbs absence of an American versol ol war. This is very courteous upon his part; but our Consul regrets the necessity of de pending upon foreign aid at such a time. If ws bad an American vessel of war here now, we m ight be more independent. FUaTHXB DETAILS ST AB ITK-WITHESS. . In addition to the above narrative, tbe fol lowing extraots from a letter to the American Christian Roview of this eity, by Rev, Dr. J. T. Barclay, the very intelligent missionary of the Christian Church at Jerusalem', will be rend with interest, lie writes Iroir. Beirut. under date of June 3)ih, as lo'.tnw: HIS LBUif.S a so MAUUWITaH. Allow ma to premise In oider that I way bo the better understood that the Druses occupy that por'ion of the Lebanon ranges lying south of this city, and the Marouites the norihorn portions the boundary line be-tweon the two, however, being rather indefinite; and here the two parties are somewhat intermixed. It must also In borne in miod that the Mernnilea are demoted Romanists; and that the Drupes, though professing a kind of chanielion faith, compounded of a little Judaism, a good deal of Islatuivm and a spill of Christianity, are nevertheless, the veriest hoathen idolators that ever bowed down to 8t(wk 0r stoneworshipping as they do to tnis j, t gu(f caif. They are natural and jtnpiiobl enemies of each other a'.waya at W1ri honce t10 puity of their popula (ionthe Maronites not numbering more ,ljaa 230,000, aad the Drus.-s not exceeding a f(lurth part uf that numWr. though inhabi- tjne 9C miny centuries "tbe glory of Mban on." It must also be remcinbereoi, U we would rightly comprehend the bearng of this Woody war, that France has the Maronitca un(er her speoul protection while England, in order to neutraliz) the inil lonco thus ex crcised by Franco in Syrian affairs, has ta ken the Druses under her expands 1 wing- tu. evident object of each nation (as sufhVent- ly evinced in the establishment of two rival Arabic papers for their special use) being the creation, of such an interest in Turkey as will secure tha largest slice when, that much cov i eled fowl hhall be served up to gratify the longing appetite of the great political gorman-, :.1'ts of Ljrorw. causes OF THK CfTaRKAX. j pearancei a nspectable tanner. C lvin soo i The present Druse-Marouite war broke oul ' disappeared from Manchester and has nevev somo six or eiht weeks ago; originating pro- j boon seen kino. Thus matters stood, unt l fessedly in the revengeful determination qfja few days ao. wlj-n Je;e Boon, who is tbe Druses to kill some twenty or thirty Ma- inow upward uf seventy years old, was at. ronites in retaliation by way of squaring off rested for counterfeiting and lodge I in thi tho accounts ol last year's war, when the to-1 Cleveland Jt.il. Sm after his inca.roera'io'i, t il loss of tho Druses exceeded that of the Maroniies by that number. Tba knowing ones, however, allega that this is a mere pre- tf.xt ba'ohed up to cover over a deep djsign, originating in quite anotner quarter, uui pirhaps it is ' est (hough I had intended to aay muoh in relation to llio origin aud causes of the war Mia: I should hay noihing more nn the subject, lust it be regarded as mere idle speculation, if not evil surmising and disrespect to the "powers that be." TUE TURKISH SOLDIERS PARTICIPANTS lit THK ATROCITIES. After dose; ibing at length the terrible bar barities piactioed by the Druses on their vio- tiuis, acoount; of which have already appeared in our columns, the writer proceeds: It Is said, however, that the worst of their fate was generally inflicted by the Pasha's rough scldkrs," who hung around the Druse army like so u any vultures, ready to pounce upon the prey. And oerta'u it is that the Druses have been known in several instances to make proclamati n before attacking a village, that all the "Protestants" who would come out and deliver up their arms should be spared, and have sacredly kept their promise, while the Moslems have uniformly slaughtered them after thus inveigling them into their power; or if they did not actually commit the slaughter themselves, they per mitted the Druses to do it. WONDERFUL PRESCBVATIOH OF THK AMERICA AtlSSIOMAUIES. Whilst numbers of the natives who nomi nally profess Protestant principles have been slaughtered in edd blood, only a doseo or two of the converts are known to have been killed. And it is a fact highly significant, that not a single member of any of the missionary families hat received any personal injury the f rty bullets found lodged in and about Mr. Bird's bouse having, no doubt, as is now believed, been unintentionally discharged in that direction in the confusion of the general battle. Several of th missionary families reposed so much coufl deuce in the Druse sheiks that, though . nt for by the consul under the protection of a Government escort, they concluded to remain at their stations, not only to protect their converts, but because they deemed it safer at that stage of the war to remain there than to venture down into the city. Oue o' their large tine churches, however, has been destroyed and siveral of their school houses. So highly was the influeaoe of th missionaries appreciated that as much as 10,000 piasters were paid to tbe Moslems, by a Maronite, fur permission to knock at the door of on ol the missionaries! Nor was it doamed by him a bard bargain, for thereby he saved bis life.- But while the American missionaries have oscaped so well, far otherwise bas i t bM n with the Latin and Greek priests, many of whom bar been most oruelly murdered and their property, to immense amount, deatroyed. Not less, probably, than twenty large convents have been pillaged and destroyed; and amongst other items of value, of wbicb they flod themselves minus, is a highly gemmed golden cross, the gift of Napoleon Bonaparte valued at twelve hundred pounds sterling. Immensely val abte silk factories, owned by toreign capitalists, principally Italians, have been destroyed. Indeed, Apollyoa bimtslf (who, by tbe by, baa been in secret league with them all lbs while) eould seareely de-sir greater havoc than these fiendish Druses have committed on the fertile slopes of Lebanon. .Till IATSST. In a pos'.aciipt, Dr. Barclay thus describes ths results of so embassy to tbe chief of the mountains by the representatives of the "Five j Powers," usdrtakn for the purpose-of tw dug a peaoe on the Druse anj Maronttse. 1 have ist seen Mr. Graham, and hs Informs me that hi mifsion Is altogether ia. vain. Strongly backed by the Pasha, (who, by the by, Is not yet disposed.) the infatuat4 Druses seem bent on a war of utter ex termination, Mr. O. mentioned that in pa. . sing through several of the ruinad Maroniu ' viljagos he was sometimes compePed to retreat and take another street, on ak ;i,t of the heaps of dead bodies. Many . ' leaving, and all preparing to leave on c notice of a bombardment from the ha. Vi i.i-an attack from the mountains; and yl uii is the safest place in all Syria. Bad i.o.i i from Jerusalem, Tripoli and Aleppo, Tv of the missionary families have lelt, oneoiu will leave in a few days, and perhaps s ethers in the course oj w:qk or tw. An Old Myatory RavftaJ- ' Iu the year lMo two brother, Jesse ltd, Stephen Boon, were convicted of the in,i i .8 of their biolhrr in-law, Russell Col.i.i, at Manc'iester, (V't.) Before their trial Jj..j lloon confessed the n.urler, and stated I'm. Stephen was bis accomplice. Other circn u- stances such a the On ling of the inurdu, jf man's clothing, knife, , together with ula bones, at (he fplace indievel by Jeftse jra proven, and tho two were sentenced to ba hung on the id U of J wrier, H'JO. Jesse's punishment was commuted to in-prison mi it fbr life by the Vermont L"go- u turo, whits Stephen was left to his fate. (. t the day that Stephen was to have been ex cntad ItiiKall n.dvin annenrol in juvnir.',, tu.. . . Minc,ia;.t . of . th nf , . prisoner were released. Ji-sss Boon soo i tftw , he 'Burton, Oeauga county, and became to, all it is said, he confessed to Deputy Marshal Hackett thit he and his brother Stephen dit in rtality kill Colvin, and that the person who appeared in Mmehes'er on the dar fixed fur the execution was a crazy roan front New Jersey, who so much resembled the mmdeied man as to deceive not only his olt acquaintances in that town, but that th wid-ow, family, and (riviids of the murdered man reocgnized hiin as tho long loat lyibaad, father, and brother. The Cleveland Hera) 1 uf July 3h, after recounting the above story in detail, as well as the recent arrest for counterfeiting, and expressing Us diatrust of many of the "sensation stories" which find their way into the newspapers, aids the following: "This morning we visited Jess noon In the county jail, where he is on fined on the ohargo f counterfeiting. He positively da-nid the statement in a eity paper that he he had confessed to Doputy Marshal Hacketa his connection with the murder of Colvin, and had told Hacketl that the man who came from New Jersey was a bogus Colvin, . lecttd for tbispurpiseon account of personal resemblance to the murdered man. Iia atory to us was rambling and incoherent, whioh might be accounted for by his age and palsiedl state, but he strenuously denied that Col vie was murdered, and in the main confirms th story narrated above. He made ho allusion to the confessions made on tbe trial, but lays tbe fact of the arrests on th nalioe of a man charged with forgery, who was promid hit liberty if be could give a.iy information in r-gard to Cotvin'a fate. 'Jesse Boon is about seventy yean of age, ' white headed, and afflicted with dumb patiy. He protest! his inrocenco, not only of the ciime of murder, but of thit on which be ia nw ander arrtst." THE NEWS. Ths Ypsilantl (Mich ,) Smtintl, beretofb a strong Democratic journal, has run up t! Republican flag. It is said that Mr. Rarey, the horse tarn will soon return to tbe United Stales, wi money enough to set up a bank. He L been remarkably successful in Europe. Senator Trumbull did not vote fbr a re. flcation of the Mexican treaty, as confident' stated in the N. Y. Tmti, nor favor It in at share or form. 1 Mrs. Marl Toit of Patteraen X. J pi red on Sunday ,at th great ge of en hu dred and six year. Her husband who di. in 1847, was an officer io the revolnlwoai; army. Another slaver was captured In the Qu'. waters on the 3d of May, having on boar! Bom 600 Afrieans,by tbe U. 8. steamer Cm k sader, Lieut. Comdt. John M. Maffiit. Th- ' wr sent to Key West, making some I.TW of these beings at that place. ' f The wbrle nnmber of miles ran o tb II , linol Central Railroad, during the ntoalh c ,' April, wan 178,846,' at an average coat f-t: mil of 27-IT cents. This include ill other xpenditores (upennUoding, wages of epgut- e ear ana nrvuta, oil, wuii, ec., ccet A Yankee, from Maine, being at (paa Vista th night before th battle an4 tea what doubtful of tb wait, went cut of hear ing, as be supposed, and. sada tb following , prayer: : ... , , ) "0 Lord, Kr are, aWot iaaa tbeomd ' of. as, and twenty thousand M!en ' noogh to swallow as witbeutgreasirg Kew If you eea belp as de it and if yoa eaa't, l ' Heaven's sake don't help th Meiioan ! just hold oa antil to-morrow, and yoa wil' see tb gaul damdeat fight yoa vr taw k yotttjlle. Xu respectfully, mV . 4. '" rt 8 1, ; ' pi tt is IK.' 1 r:. V